Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Wedding Recap 5: The Reception

I know-I’m the world’s worst procrastinator! It’s been a really busy summer but I want to finish these wedding recaps! (Even though I’ve been married for 5 months-ha!)
After the ceremony, we split off to take photos of Zach and me as well as us with our families and the wedding party while the guests enjoyed cocktail hour.
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We chose two drinks to have as our signature drinks and also served beer and Mississippi muscadine wine. The bride’s drink was a strawberry mojito and the groom’s drink was Captain and Coke!
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The whole wedding party! From right, Jim, Danielle, Jonathon, Emily, Scott, Amanda, Shawn, Chelsea, me, Zach, Caitlin, Dan, Mary Catherine, Kevin, Brianna, and Andy! We had the funniest wedding party-they kept the party going all weekend and we all had so much fun!Reception1-022
Us with my parents and sister :) Reception1-035
Zach’s pink socks! I had to have him wear some pink!Reception1-041
Us with Zach’s parents, sister, and brother :) Reception1-043
Zach’s sweet grandparents Grammy and Poppy! I love them! Reception1-056
Zach’s socks and my shoes :) Reception1-057
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We had a wedding cowbell that we made and we didn’t ring it until our wedding day!Reception1-065
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Chelsea and Shawn had the most hilarious best man-maid of honor entrance! Reception1-111
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The new Mr. and Mrs.!
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First dance!Reception1-116 Reception1-121
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Time to cut the cake! The flavor of our cake was amazing! It was a creamy vanilla cake with fresh strawberry filling and vanilla buttercream. Reception2-061
Scott wins the award for best dance moves!Reception2-104
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Tossing the bouquet! Mary Catherine caught the bouquet and she actually was the next one to get married! Her and Kevin were married in June!Reception2-150
Also, the our friend who caught the garter proposed to his girlfriend only a few weeks after our wedding!Reception2-155
We had an MSU pom pom and cowbell send off after the wedding! The whole group sang the MSU fight song and it made us smile :) Reception2-194
Of course I had to say bye to my dad post-wedding! The poor guy had the Noro virus and was suffering the whole day. What a trooper!Reception2-198 
After our wedding everyone went to a local favorite restaurant, Red’s Ice House, and continued the party there! The place wasn’t busy, so we had the band and a whole section of the restaurant to ourselves! We had SUCH a blast! Our reception ended at 9 and we wound up staying at Red’s past midnight. Zach and I walked to our hotel which was right down the street and everyone was honking and yelling to us since we were in our wedding gear! :) We were so fortunate that we had so many people who mean so much to us travel for our wedding. We had such an amazing, memorable wedding!
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